Janet Brennan Croft
@banzailibrarian.bsky.social
Tolkienist, librarian, cat lover, Granny Weatherwax wannabe, quilter, and occasional Deadhead.
New issue of Mythlore is up: dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol...
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature | Vol 44 | No. 1
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October 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
New issue of Mythlore is up: dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol...
Tolkien language nerds, scans of the first five issues of Parma Eldalamberon, long only available as photocopies, are now available open access: dc.swosu.edu/parma/
Parma Eldalamberon | Mythopoeic Society | Southwestern Oklahoma State University
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September 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Tolkien language nerds, scans of the first five issues of Parma Eldalamberon, long only available as photocopies, are now available open access: dc.swosu.edu/parma/
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as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip
Simply add a swear word and the AI slop doesn't come up 👍
April 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip
There will be more to come from the Mythopoeic Society's official social media steward, but: today, our content at dc.swosu.edu/mythsoc/ hit ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS! Woot!
Mythopoeic Society | Southwestern Oklahoma State University Research | SWOSU Digital Commons
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April 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
There will be more to come from the Mythopoeic Society's official social media steward, but: today, our content at dc.swosu.edu/mythsoc/ hit ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS! Woot!
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I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.
April 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.
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LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to listcomments@loc.gov by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...
Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
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February 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to listcomments@loc.gov by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...
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Work in healthcare?
Come to a country that still values freedom, diversity, and science.
IF YOU HAVE QUEER and TRANS friends in healthcare, get them to apply immediately!
Come to a country that still values freedom, diversity, and science.
IF YOU HAVE QUEER and TRANS friends in healthcare, get them to apply immediately!
American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦
We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
Canada announces new immigration stream specific to health workers
Communities across Canada need health workers. The health field is one of several key sectors of Canada’s labour force which is facing unprecedented shortages. To help respond to this challenge, last ...
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February 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Work in healthcare?
Come to a country that still values freedom, diversity, and science.
IF YOU HAVE QUEER and TRANS friends in healthcare, get them to apply immediately!
Come to a country that still values freedom, diversity, and science.
IF YOU HAVE QUEER and TRANS friends in healthcare, get them to apply immediately!
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don’t treat people like crap.
unless you want to treat them like *we* treat crap, with the transformative care, respect, and service-oriented attention it deserves.
unless you want to treat them like *we* treat crap, with the transformative care, respect, and service-oriented attention it deserves.
January 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
don’t treat people like crap.
unless you want to treat them like *we* treat crap, with the transformative care, respect, and service-oriented attention it deserves.
unless you want to treat them like *we* treat crap, with the transformative care, respect, and service-oriented attention it deserves.
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
The seminar proceedings for MythSoc's "Something Mighty Queer" online conference are up. Some great reading here! Lots on Tolkien, but also papers on Our Flag Means Death, Star Wars, intersectionality, queer theology, and more! dc.swosu.edu/mythpro/vol2...
Mythopoeic Society Conference and Seminar Proceedings | Mythopoeic Society | Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Only a few Mythcon proceedings volumes have been published; after Mythcon III, presenters were encouraged to submit their papers to Mythlore instead. The Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings Series ...
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January 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The seminar proceedings for MythSoc's "Something Mighty Queer" online conference are up. Some great reading here! Lots on Tolkien, but also papers on Our Flag Means Death, Star Wars, intersectionality, queer theology, and more! dc.swosu.edu/mythpro/vol2...
Cool old stamp that came on one of our Christmas cards! Someone was clearing out their stamp hoard.
December 31, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Cool old stamp that came on one of our Christmas cards! Someone was clearing out their stamp hoard.
Since I don't work as a cataloger anymore, I didn't think I'd ever need to consult the Homosaurus controlled vocabulary list -- but it's coming in really handy for creating appropriate new entries for the Mythlore Index Plus for the papers from the "Something Mighty Queer" seminar.
Homosaurus Vocabulary Site
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December 23, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Since I don't work as a cataloger anymore, I didn't think I'd ever need to consult the Homosaurus controlled vocabulary list -- but it's coming in really handy for creating appropriate new entries for the Mythlore Index Plus for the papers from the "Something Mighty Queer" seminar.
The distinction between emotion and analysis is an excellent one.
I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.
Be furious be angry but despondency is what they want from us. And be very suspicious of people on the left who say “we are cooked” or whatever. Imagine the civil rights movement, or suffrage, or any movement for change, hitting a roadblock and just “saying well we are well and truly fucked now.”
December 22, 2024 at 7:50 PM
The distinction between emotion and analysis is an excellent one.
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Flowchart of human history:
1. Suffer incredible hardship.
2. Amazing science and hard work fixes hardship.
3. Everything is much better for about 50 years.
4. Nobody remembers hardship anymore.
5. Solution to hardship now considered unnecessary.
6. GOTO 1.
1. Suffer incredible hardship.
2. Amazing science and hard work fixes hardship.
3. Everything is much better for about 50 years.
4. Nobody remembers hardship anymore.
5. Solution to hardship now considered unnecessary.
6. GOTO 1.
December 13, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Flowchart of human history:
1. Suffer incredible hardship.
2. Amazing science and hard work fixes hardship.
3. Everything is much better for about 50 years.
4. Nobody remembers hardship anymore.
5. Solution to hardship now considered unnecessary.
6. GOTO 1.
1. Suffer incredible hardship.
2. Amazing science and hard work fixes hardship.
3. Everything is much better for about 50 years.
4. Nobody remembers hardship anymore.
5. Solution to hardship now considered unnecessary.
6. GOTO 1.
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From the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social book that started this website.
November 20, 2024 at 10:04 PM
From the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social book that started this website.
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On the nose!
November 16, 2024 at 12:54 PM
On the nose!
I haven't been very active here on Bluesky -- I was never very active on the former place either. But one thing I DID do there was post when I put something new up on Academia. This was my talk to to the OK ACRL librarians a few days after the election: www.academia.edu/125387596/Im...
Imagination Grows a Better World: Courage, Creativity, and Fantastic Futures
Our field is requiring ever more courage from us as we face challenges to our bedrock beliefs in free access to information and the value of diverse viewpoints, of representation of different ways of ...
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November 12, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I haven't been very active here on Bluesky -- I was never very active on the former place either. But one thing I DID do there was post when I put something new up on Academia. This was my talk to to the OK ACRL librarians a few days after the election: www.academia.edu/125387596/Im...
Geeze, I try to go on Facebook to crow about having my one meeting for the day cancelled, and Facebook is down.
March 5, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Geeze, I try to go on Facebook to crow about having my one meeting for the day cancelled, and Facebook is down.
Come work with me! If you have experience with the back end of Ex Libris, you're who we're looking for.
February 15, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Come work with me! If you have experience with the back end of Ex Libris, you're who we're looking for.
Last Chance Sale on 2000-2021 original print issues of Mythlore! From now through March 1, all remaining original print copies of Mythlore from #86 through #140 will be half-price. Order them here: mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-history.htm
February 13, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Last Chance Sale on 2000-2021 original print issues of Mythlore! From now through March 1, all remaining original print copies of Mythlore from #86 through #140 will be half-price. Order them here: mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-history.htm
So in my dream last night, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com touched my phone and cured the chirping caused by the most recent Facebook software update. Thanks, Neil! Alas, he couldn’t do anything about the AI-designed architecture in the background.
February 11, 2024 at 4:56 PM
So in my dream last night, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com touched my phone and cured the chirping caused by the most recent Facebook software update. Thanks, Neil! Alas, he couldn’t do anything about the AI-designed architecture in the background.